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The opera house needed a significantly deeper basement than other buildings but they were digging into a marshy area where the groundwater was particularly high.Īfter unsuccessfully attempting to drain the site with wells and steam pumps, Charles Garnier, the real architect, came up with a solution. Let’s go back to 1862 when the first concrete foundations were being poured. If you thought that the water in the basement was a myth fabricated by Gaston Leroux, it is not.

Erik is a deformed architect who helped build the Paris Opera House while simultaneously and secretly building an underground palace for himself where a vast subterranean lake flowed. In brief, the story is a love triangle between the beautiful Christine with her childhood friend, Raoul, and the phantom, Erik.

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This story was published as a serial in Le Gaulois over a three and a half month period and shortly thereafter as a novel. This claim is made in part because of its unquestionable beauty but also because of the fame generated from Le Fantôme de l’Opéra by Gaston Leroux in 1910.

The opera house was finished in 1875 and it may very well be the most famous opera house in existence. Of the many symbols of Paris, the Palais Garnier is certainly one of those most closely associated with the city.

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